Mr. Keller Believes You Are Easily Confused  —  The NYT's Executive Editor Bill Keller refuses interviews but does provide a wholly unpersuasive reponse that is, at best, defensive posturing. … First, unless Mr. Keller makes himself available for interviews on this subject, he is not taking the questions and concerns seriously.

Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts in Iraq  —  Pentagon Plan Like Theirs, Senators Say  —  Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack …

Lessons drawn from the Zengerle/TNR debacle  —  (updated below)  —  On Friday, I wrote a post stating — based on abundant evidence I had compiled that was indisputable and conclusive to all but the most fact-free eyes — that an e-mail published by Jason Zengerle on the website of The New Republic was fraudulent.

Decisions: campaign finance limits nullified; five rulings overall  —  (NOTE: The next decision day will be Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced.  Five decisions remain (see below).  Presumably, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., will announce on Wednesday when the Term will end.

Family life faces State 'invasion'  —  Government surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, will be condemned tomorrow as a Big Brother system.  —  Experts say it is the biggest state intrusion in history into the role of parents.

Spinning Haditha  —  So I receive a phone call from a reporter at ABC News.  They are working on a story about Haditha, and the reporter's comments to me go something along the lines of; "I am particularly interested in your recent pieces on Haditha in which you say that in order to understand what happened …

Call for Lobbying Changes Is A Fading Cry, Lawmakers Say  —  Calming of Political Storm Cited as Reason for Attitude Shift  —  When Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) announced his resignation as majority leader in January — soon after lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to corruption charges — House Republicans panicked.

Afghan Leader Losing Support  —  KABUL, Afghanistan, June 25 — Many Afghans and some foreign supporters say they are losing faith in President Hamid Karzai's government, which is besieged by an escalating insurgency and endemic corruption and is unable to protect or administer large areas of the country.

FBI drops demand for information from Connecticut library group  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigations has conceded another legal victory to a group of Connecticut libraries, thereby ending the case entirely, RAW STORY has learned.  —  The Librarians, members of Library Connection …

Scalia twisted my words  —  Criminologist says his work was used to reach its opposite conclusion in {lt}i{gt}Hudson{lt}/i{gt}.  —  A FRIEND OF mine e-mailed me last week with some exciting news — the Supreme Court had cited one of my criminal justice policy books in an important, late-term decision.

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Saddam's WMD  —  Why is our intelligence community holding back?  —  On Wednesday, at our request, the director of national intelligence declassified six "key points" from a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report on the recovery of chemical munitions in Iraq.

Lieberman Lies, Leaps Into Gutter  —  He did it with this new attack flyer mailed to Democratic voters.  —  Joe Lieberman's reelection campaign for U.S. Senate has already been widely criticized, even by conservatives sympathetic to the candidate, for its low-grade attack tactics on Ned Lamont …